Gerard Way

“I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already seen it once, and he was like, 'We need to watch this.' I was sleeping over his house - and I think we were literally 15 - and we watched it.”

“What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun.”

“I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it.”

“It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.”

“It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.”

“I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then.”

“Life is but a dream for the dead.”

“Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.”

“I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see me as a chick. So I went as a girl, as like an experiment and it worked really well and everyone was really nice to me but I couldn't talk obviously...you know train conductors were really cool to me on my commute...HA! I looked hot as a chick!”

“Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.”

“The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.”

“There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.”

“When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.'”

“Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?”

“I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference”

“I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters.”

“A lot of kids get disappointed. They expect me to be, like, 'Bwaah.' 'If I spend a minute with them, they end up saying, 'Wow, you're a nice, normal guy.' They hate it when they catch me out of my makeup.”

“Give me a shot to rememberAnd you can take all the pain away from meA kiss and I will surrenderThe sharpest lives are the deadliest to leadA light to burn all the empiresSo bright the sun is ashamed to rise and beAnd I'm in love with all of those vampiresSo you can leave like the sane abandoned me”

“If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.”

“There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.”